HELL: Dante's Divine Trilogy Part One. Decorated and Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray

ISBN-13: 9781786892539 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 160 str.

Dante Alighieri

Opis

Part one of Alasdair Gray's remarkable interpretation of Dante's Divina Commedia, translated and sublimely illustrated

Recenzje

Alasdair Gray has cast a spell over Dante's Hell, creating (and decorating) a verse translation that is modern, lyrical, yet faithful to the original GAVIN FRANCIS New Statesman, Best Books of 2018

O autorze

Born in 1934, Alasdair Gray graduated in design and mural painting from the Glasgow School of Art. Since 1981, when Lanark was published by Canongate, he authored, designed and illustrated seven novels, several books of short stories, a collection of his stage, radio and TV plays and a book of his visual art, A Life in Pictures. In November 2019, he received a Lifetime Achievement award by the Saltire Society. He died in December 2019, aged eighty-five. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was a major Italian poet of the Middle Ages and the author of the Divine Comedy.